Word: propelled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Female solidarity -- "the woman thing" as one of her aides calls it -- is not incidental to Dianne Feinstein's political fortunes. A woman's vote, on the order of nearly 6 to 4, is believed to have helped propel her to victory over her rival, attorney general John Van de Kamp, in the state Democratic primary last week. It is bound to be Republican candidate Pete Wilson's most devilish problem in the fall campaign. And if Feinstein beats Wilson to win the governorship of the biggest state, she will become the most powerful elected woman politician in the country...
Shades of detail had not yet been sketched in, but the picture's message was evident. The boulder was Nicolae Ceausescu, and the people were trying to propel the monolith off a cliff. Staring at the unfinished illustration in New York City, a Rumanian guest of the artist Eugene Mihaesco remarked, "I guess we have to push a little harder." That was a year and a half ago. The piece and others by Mihaesco, who was born in Bucharest, have since appeared in Universul, a U.S.-printed biweekly circulated underground in Ceausescu's kingdom. And Rumanians did push, with...